Mono language (Cameroon)

Mono is a moribund Mbum language spoken by older adults in northern Cameroon. A probable dialect, Dama, may already be extinct.

Mono
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
300 Mono (2001)[1]
50 Dama (older adults, no date)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mru  Mono
dmm  Dama
Glottologmono1269  Mono[2]
dama1267  Dama[3]

References

  1. Mono at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
    Dama at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mono (Cameroon)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dama (Cameroon)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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